The objects of physical education are the human being and body. The view of body has a great influence on physical education. Therefore the purpose of this study is reveal the view of body in the Holy Bible.
Hellenist thought materials and physical ...
The objects of physical education are the human being and body. The view of body has a great influence on physical education. Therefore the purpose of this study is reveal the view of body in the Holy Bible.
Hellenist thought materials and physical things were fundmentally evil, but only spiritual things were good. So they made light of body. While Hevraist had the monistic point of view that a human being is a total being, and body and soul are not separable. These many Hebrew ideas and influence continue to be at work in Paul of the New Testament.
Dualism was never considered by the Holy Bible and it never accepted the soul of immortality even though it used many psychological terms to describe the nature of mankind. The Holy Bible under the influence of Hebraism understood the human being as a monism. So it did not classify the body and mind, but integrated them in one.
Body in the Holy Bible has a very comprehensive significance. Paul in the Holy Bible does not think dichotomistically and the term body does not for him denote only the external and material organization of man to be brought to life by the soul or the spirit. Man not only has a body. On the other hand, it is in this being a body that there is the possibility of the distinction between man and himself, between the 'I' and its self-realization in thoughts and acts. Body represents the image of man as he was created by God, was intended for God, and will therefore be saved from death by God.
Flesh has for him the significance of what is human in its weakness, dependence on God, and perishableness in itself: on the other hand, flash is the preganant and very specific description of man in his sin, and the coinciding of being human and being a sinner is therefore expressed in it. Body and flash are used synonyously in describing the whole man in his trmporal bodily existence.
Paul in the Holy Bible thought that body was fundamental and elemental to human being and he understood human being as a whole personality. Paul did not make light of body. It is very significant in the history of idea on physical education for him to assert that one should have sound mind and body under the circumstance of the Hellenistic dualism and extreme Stocism.